with an
Acco share
you get a discount on Acco-titles, office supplies and selected titles.
Content
Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities that the health care setting is a dangerous place and some bioethicists that disability activists have nothing to offer bioethics. It wrestles with the charge that bioethics as a discipline devalues the lives of persons with disabilities, arguing that reconciling the competing concerns of the disability community and the autonomy-based approach of mainstream bioethics is not only possible, but essential for a bioethics committed to facilitating good medical decision making and promoting respect for all persons, regardless of ability. Through in-depth case studies involving newborns, children and adults with disabilities, it proposes a new model for medical decision making that is both sensitive to and sensible about the fact of disability in medical cases. Alicia Ouellette, Albany Law School Features • A one-stop shop for anyone interested in bioethics, disabilities studies and law, drawing on and synthesizing all three fields • The case study format is easily accessible and engaging, and the book is meticulously researched and documented, making it a valuable resource for research • The substance works on many levels, making the book appropriate for both novices and experts in healthcare, bioethics and disability studies Table of Contents 1. The struggle: disability rights versus bioethics 2. Clashing perspectives and a call for reconciliation 3. Infancy 4. Childhood 5. The reproductive years 6. Adulthood 7. The end of life 8. Toward a disability-conscious bioethics.